Roerich nominated for Peace award

Artist
and scientist Named
With Four Prominent Statesmen for the Nobel Prize

Kellog also presented

Senator
Jouvenel, EdouardHerriot and Ramsay MacDonald
Are the Other Nominees

According
to a cablegram received from Paris by the Roerich
Museum, 310 Riverside Drive, the names submitted to the Nobel Commission for
the Peace Prize, which comprises members of the Norwegian Parliament at Oslo,
include those of Secretary Kellogg of the United States, Senator Jouvenel of France, Professor Nicholas Roerich,
former Premier Ramsay MacDonald of Great Britain and former Premier Herriot of France.

Professor
Roerich's name was presented officially through the
Department of International Law of the University of Paris, and the
committee of presentation comprised officials and members of the universities
of various countries. As far as is known, this is the first time that an artist
and scientist has been nominated as a candidate for the peace award, on the
basis that efforts for international peace through art and culture have brought
about better understanding of international relations.

In
presenting the name of Professor Roerich, the
committee of presentation states, among other things:

"Since
1890, Nicholas Roerich, through his writings, through
his lectures, researches, paintings and through the many fields into which his
broad personality has led him, has forcefully expounded the teaching of
international brotherhood. His propaganda for peace has penetrated into more
than twenty-one countries and the recognition of its influence has been
testified by the widely different activities which have invited his assistance.

"As
an artist, one of the greatest that history has produced, his paintings have
illustrated the great volume of beauty and spiritual light symbolized by his
teaching. The significance of their universal appeal is seen in the foundation
in New York of the Roerich Museum that the people
might have permanent recourse to his teachings.

"We
firmly believe that eventual and hasting international peace will come only
through the education of the people and through that steady and impressive
propaganda for brotherhood created by culture, by poetry and by beauty in every
field. The works of Roerich have, for the last thirty
years, been one of the great summons to the world for love among men."